From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-11-14T17:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How to set socket option SO_RCVTIMEO

Kem Mason wrote:
> hehe yeh I just realized I could use a regular Socket instead of a TCP 
> Socket -- it doesn't appear to be the only problem though.  here's my 
> latest code (which still doesn't timeout properly)

Well, probably you shouldn't be using setsockopt for this at all. Note 
that setting SO_RCVTIMEO just raises an EAGAIN on timeout; I'd expect 
that gets would trap that and retry.

Why not simply:

require 'timeout'
result = nil
timeout(1.5) {
  result = sock.gets
}
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